He was the inaugural chair of the NSW-IMOS (NSW-Integrated Marine Observing System), 2007-2012, one of 5 nodes of the federal IMOS program. Of prime concern are the warming waters off southeastern Australia (more that 2ºC in less than a century) by the accelerating East Australian Current. He now leads the IMOS Larval Fish Monitoring subfacility – coordinating monthly ichthyoplankton sampling off Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart, Adelaide, Perth (which ends in June 2022).